What was the weirdest black market in your school?

Mountain Dew and Pepsi had a contest where college names were printed on the inside of the bottle caps.

If that school won the NCAA March Madness tournament, you could send it in for the jersey of your choice from any school.

Suddenly, the black market for caps with blue-chip schools was born. I remember selling

a Duke cap for ten bucks, then turning around and buying ten drinks from the vending machine.

This one girl forged excuse notes if you brought her something one of your parents wrote.

I never used her services myself, but we were, and still are, good friends, and I've got

to say, she's really talented.

I literally can't tell which one is mine after she copied something I wrote, including

the signature.

It's baffling.

Our middle school tried to start a reward program.

It turned out to be a failure of epic proportions.

Wolfbucks, named after our mascot.

They were mini-sized dollars, color-coded by value.

Green was $1, red was $5, blue was $10, and a gold wolf buck, only accessible to the principal

and assistant principal, was 50.

Now the school bought erasers, pencils, notebooks, and you could only buy them

with wolf bucks. One pencil was one wolf buck. The first failure? It was very easy to copy.

So kids started mass copying them. Okay, so the school got smart and said,

only accepting wolf bucks with your name and your teacher's signature

on it. Their second failure was keeping the same color, so kids would earn one legitimately and then

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